In an interview with the Verge Google group product supervisor for Chrome OS, Cyrus Mistry, has revealed how the corporate will deliver Windows app help to Chrome OS.
The function will work by integrating Parallels, the digital machine generally used on macOS, into ChromeOS, permitting customers in addition a full model of Windows in a digital machine on ChromeOS.
The function would require a high-end ChromeEbook, and can initially come to solely Chromebooks in Enterprise. It will even require a full license for Windows 10.
In the longer term customers will even be capable of use Parallels to run Windows apps instantly from the Chrome OS launcher, with out the total Windows desktop, utilizing Parallels’ Coherence function.
“We worked with Parallels because they really have done this before,” Mistry defined. “They understand the concept of running an entirely separate OS within another OS. They’ve done it with Mac and they’ve done it with Linux.”
Mistry mentioned Parallels presents “the best of both worlds,” and working Windows in a digital machine was safer than providing twin boot help.
Mistry mentioned the function will likely be out there to enterprise customers later this yr, and that resellers can bundle Parallels Desktop with enterprise Chromebooks.
Enterprise Admins who’re can register their curiosity right here.
